Decisive battles since Waterloo : the most important military events from 1815 to 1887 . mination of Molino del Rey showedthat the proposed attack would not be successful withouta reinforcement of artillery. The Molino consisted of arange of massive stone buildings with crenellated wallsand parapeted roofs, commanded by the plunging fire ofChapultepec at a distance of three thousand feet. Therewas a smaller, but equally solid building, the Casa Mata,fifteen hundred feet to the west; it was surrounded by abastioned field-work of a quadrangular shape. Betweenthose two points was a battery of thr
Decisive battles since Waterloo : the most important military events from 1815 to 1887 . mination of Molino del Rey showedthat the proposed attack would not be successful withouta reinforcement of artillery. The Molino consisted of arange of massive stone buildings with crenellated wallsand parapeted roofs, commanded by the plunging fire ofChapultepec at a distance of three thousand feet. Therewas a smaller, but equally solid building, the Casa Mata,fifteen hundred feet to the west; it was surrounded by abastioned field-work of a quadrangular shape. Betweenthose two points was a battery of three small guns, andin front stretched a line of embankment with were patches of maguey, which screened the Mexi-can force, numbering altogether more than four thousandfighting men, besides the cavalry corps of Alvarez, whichwas nearly four thousand strong. Worth prepared for a vigorous assault on the Mexicancentre, to be followed by attacks on either flank. To thisend he assigned Major Wright to take the centre withfive hundred men, Garlands brigade with two light pieces. io3 104 DECISIVE BATTLES SINCE WATERLOO. taking position on the right to threaten the Molino andcut off support from Chapultepec. Clarkes brigade underMcintosh with three light pieces faced the Mexican right,which rested on the Casa Mata ; still farther to the left atroop of cavalry was stationed to observe Alvarez, whileCadwaladers division stood in reserve behind the force amounting to three thousand five hundredmen advanced during the night and took position alongthe clear and gently sloping ground in front of Molinodel Rey, where they waited for the coming day. Withits first faint gleam the artillery opens fire on the mill, andthe whistling of balls and the crashing of masonry followspeedily. Not a shot comes from the Mexican lines, andthe Americans begin to believe that the place is storming-party forms and rushes towards thepoint, where the central battery was su
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